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J. H. WIOKES'. REFRIGERATOR GAR.

Patented Oct. 4, 1881.

' UNITED g STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES H. WIOKES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

REFRIGERATOR-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,975, dated October 4, 1881.

Application filed May .26, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, JAMES H. WIGKES, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of NewYork, have invented new and useful Improvements .in Refrigerators, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement on a refrigerator of that class which I have described in Letters Patent No. 230,376 granted to me July 20, 1880.

This invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a side view of my refrigerator-car partly in section. Fig.2 is a cross-section in the plane .0000, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of thelower portion ofthe ice-chamber on a larger scale than the previous figures.

Similarletters indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, the letter A designates the provision-chamber, in this example constituting the body of a refrigerator-car. B is the ice-chamber; G D, the upper and lower icegratings, and G the inclined bottoin'plate of the ice-chamber. p

' By referring to Fig. 1 it will be seen that the uppergrating, G, is roof-shaped, and from the bars of this grating are suspended wires to, whereby the drip-water on passing down from the ice box is spread over a large evaporatingsurl'ace, and the cooling effect of this drip-water is thereby materiallyincreased.

The lower grating, D, consists of two sets of wires, 1) b, which extend from one side of the car to the other in the lower narrow portion of the ice-box, and which cross each other and are inclined in opposite directions, as shown in Fig. 3, so that small pieces of ice dropping down through the upper grating will be retained on this lower grating and that thcdripwater passing down from the wires CL and from the inclined bottom plate, G, and also the'dripwater resulting from the small pieces of ice collected on said lower grating will run down over the wires 1) 1), whereby the same is distributed over a large evaporating-surface, so that its cooling effect is increased.

In the example represented by the drawings I have shown only one lower grating; but in practice, and where the size of the lower portion of the ice-chamber permits it, I propose to place two or more such gratings,one above the other, so that, asnearly' as possible, all the drip-water is caughtby the wires 1) b of the different gratings. I

The inclined bottom G is supported by traverses F, so that the same cannotbeinjured by packages placed beneath.

The ice-chamber B is situated at one end of the provision-chamber A, and it has openings 0 in its inner side, near its top, and openings d nearits bottom, whereby air is admitted to the ice-chamber from the upper part of the provision-charm her, which, after having passed down through the ice-chamber, discharges therefrom into the lower part of the provisionchamber. The lower or discharge openings are in a door, I, through which access is bad to the lower part of the ice'chamber.

On the bottom of the ice-chamber B is a wastewater pan, H, having an outlet-pipe, 0, provided with a suitable trap.

I disclaim in this present application everything shown and described in my Patent No.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with the ice-chamber B, of an upper grating, O, and alower grating, D, (one or m ore,) said lower grating being constructed of inclined wires b b, which cross each other, substantially as and for the purpose shown and described.

2. The combination, with the ice-chamber B and its grating O, of wires a, depending from the bars of said grating, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination, with the ice-chamber B, its upper grating, O, and its lower grating, D, of wires (1, depending from the bars'of the upper grating, substantially as and for the purpose described- I In testimony whereof I have hereunto set JAMES H. W'IGKES. [L. s.]

Witnesses J. VAN SANTVOORD OHAs. WAHLERS. 

